The baseball winter meetings start on Sunday night in Orlando, in which the entire baseball world convenes, a period that often stokes the hot stove flames.
We are already five weeks into the offseason, and the Dodgers have made several roster moves after winning the World Series.
Clayton Kershaw retired. Michael Kopech, Michael Conforto, Kirby Yates, and Andrew Heaney are free agents.
“Hernández’s name is coming up in trade conversations, according to league sources,” Rosenthal wrote Thursday. “The Dodgers view a deal as unlikely, but the idea of it, at least, is not without logic.”
By Wins Above Replacement, nearly the entire 2025 outfield production came from Andy Pages. The Dodgers will likely add an outfielder whether or not they deal Hernández. Tommy Edman coming off right ankle surgery puts into question how much center field he’ll be able to play, at least early in the season. Kiké Hernández might also return.
On the pitching side, the Dodgers have a solid six starting pitchers in place in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Shohei Ohtani, Emmet Sheehan, and Roki Sasaki, with Brandon Gomes confirming at the general manager meetings that Sasaki will be in the rotation after his need-based transition to relief in October. So a more likely addition for the Dodgers would be in relief, but a trade might shift plans, making it possible another starter could be pursued, under the caveat you can never have too much pitching.